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CHAPTER XII. 



On the Zoology of the Coasts and Seas of Lycia. 



Bordering the sea which furnished Aristotle 

 with the subjects of so many of his admirable 

 researches, the coast of Lycia is of no slight 

 interest to the student of marine zoology. In 

 the writings of the great founder of natural 

 history as a science, there are allusions to its 

 shores, proving that he drew from thence part 

 of his information. It is, consequently, classic 

 ground to the naturalist as well as to the scholar. 

 Little, however, has been done since the days 

 of the Stagyrite towards the exploration of 

 the scene of his researches. The stray notes 

 of Sibthorp, and the great work on the Natural 

 History of the Morea, the result of the labours 

 of the French Commission, are the chief modern 

 documents on which reliance can be placed. 

 The information they afford respecting the 



